Sr. Manager, EV Strategy & Operations

Ford Motor Company

Salary: $141k - $281k
Experience: 10+ yrs
Location: Dearborn or Palo Alto or Long Beach
Job type: Full-time

Required skills

PowerPoint
Excel
Word

About the role

Ford’s Model E team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. Model e is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out. Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

The opportunity This role offers a unique chance to own the end-to-end lifecycle of Model e’s most critical strategic initiatives—from initial problem-solving to operational rollout. You will focus on scaling our retail charging strategy, moving it from a high-level vision to a high-performing market reality. As a leader of these strategic and operational workstreams, you will serve as a key partner to Model e senior leadership, ensuring our most ambitious goals are met with precision, speed, and measurable business impact.

Responsibilities

The role As a Model e Strategy Senior Manager reporting to the Senior Director of Model e Strategy you will play a key leadership role developing and delivering the Model e 2030 strategy, including our comprehensive charging strategy, and building a strong business unit strategy team. In the role, you will:

Architect Actionable Strategies: Rigorously frame and structure complex challenges to identify the highest-leverage opportunities for growth. You won't just define the "what," but will map out the "how," guiding workstream leaders to ensure every strategic project has a clear path to commercial execution.
Drive Breakthrough Solutions: Design and lead problem-solving engines for Model e’s most critical hurdles, particularly in EV adoption and charging infrastructure. You will unlock organizational bottlenecks, resource teams for maximum impact, and ensure that strategic solutions are scalable and sustainable.
Convert Insights into Competitive Advantage: Oversee the development of a robust, data-driven fact base that moves beyond "interesting" data to "decisive" action. You will lead teams to leverage EV charging data and customer behavior trends to make high-stakes trade-offs that improve our market position.
Deliver Measurable Outcomes: Lead teams in translating complex analysis into tangible business results. You will be accountable for moving our retail charging strategy from a recommendation to a phased roadmap with clear KPIs, ensuring that strategic intent results in a superior customer experience and business growth.
Mobilize the Organization: Confidently lead strategic dialogues and challenge the status quo to accelerate decision-making. You will act as a catalyst for change, securing deep commitment (not just buy-in) from C-suite executives and cross-functional partners to ensure the enterprise is aligned for rapid execution.
Build an Outcome-Oriented Culture: Act as a strategic leader and developer of talent, building high-performing teams that are obsessed with impact. You will foster a culture of excellence, continuous learning, and accountability, driving organizational change by modeling the Ford+ behaviors and delivering on our transformation goals.

Qualifications

You'll have...

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in strategy demonstrating significant senior-level strategic leadership (or Master’s Degree and 7-10 years of experience).
Proven experience leading high impact cross-functional projects at a global scale, working with various levels of the organization. Inherently curious, analytically inclined and love solving complex problems.
Deep business acumen and expertise about fundamentals of the automotive industry, particularly the EV market, charging ecosystem, competitive dynamics, trends, best practices, and company operations.
Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and challenging the status quo, being self-driven, and bringing creative solutions to lead the resolution of complex issues.
Demonstrated expertise presenting to and influencing executive leaders including C-Suite.
Love teaching, mentoring, and apprenticing colleagues and your team members.
Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint (written presentations for a senior executive audience), Excel (mathematical modeling of large data sets), Word (white papers).

Even better, you may have...

Previous roles within Strategy organizations or at Management Consulting firms in Manager, Senior Manager, or Director roles, with experience in the EV or energy sectors.
Prior experience leading strategy projects and large-scale programs/projects at a global scale with cross-functional teams, specifically related to EV product launches or charging solutions.

Work Location & Hybrid Model: At Ford, we believe that working together in person accelerates our transformation into a more dynamic and innovative company. This position follows our hybrid work pattern:

On-Site: Four days per week at your assigned Ford facility.
Remote: One day per week optional remote work.

This role is location-agnostic across our primary innovation hubs. The successful candidate may choose to be based out of one of the following locations:

Dearborn/Detroit, MI (Global HQ / Michigan Central)
Palo Alto, CA (Greenfield Labs)
Long Beach, CA (Advanced EV Development Center)

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder…or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is leadership level 5 and ranges from $141,700-$268,300 in Deaborn, MI and from $148,800-$281,700 in Palo Alto, CA and Long Beach, CA.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/LL5

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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